Temperature, probability of rain, clouds and ultraviolet rays are some of the information you need to know before leaving home. (GlobeLiveMedia/Jovani Perez)

Due to climate change, weather changes are more constant, which means that in a single day there can be high temperatures, constant rains as well as severe frosts; take precautions and know the weather forecast for today March 3 in Antofagasta.

In Antofagasta, it is planned a maximum temperature of 24 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 16 degrees Celsius.

As for the rain the probability of precipitation for this city will be 1% during the day and 1% at night.

In the same direction, the cloudiness will be 17% during the day and 2% at night. While the gusts of wind they will reach 28 kilometers per hour during the day and 17 kilometers per hour at night.

Watch out for the sun, UV rays should reach a level of up to 11.

Being located in the north of Chile, near the coast of the Pacific Ocean and close to the Cordillera de la Costa, the city of Antofagasta has a mostly cold desert climate.

This means that in the coastal city winters are cold and summers are hotwhile the rainfall is rare all year.

In Antofagasta, the mean temperature It is around 16 degrees Celsius.

There Maximum temperature average in the city reaches 20 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature medium low up to 14 degrees Celsius.

In this Chilean town there is no rainy seasonIn any case, the month with the most tendency to present rains is September.

Antofagasta has a predominantly arid climate.  (Archive)
Antofagasta has a predominantly arid climate. (Archive)

In Chile they are present climates of all kinds, from very cold to very hotdue to its geographical location and particular territorial extension.

In the north of the Chilean countryfrom the region of Arica and Parinacota, in Valparaíso, three types of climate are distinguished: tundra and desert in its cold and hot variants.

There tundra It is characterized by a dry and always cold climate that occurs throughout the eastern part of the northern region of the country, on the border with Bolivia and Argentina.

He hot desert It is the one that predominates in most of northern Chile, it is characterized by mild winters with nights reaching zero degrees Celsius, very hot summers and little rain.

During this time he cold desert It is felt in the northern coastal areas of the country, where the winters are very cold and the summers hot; here too, rainfall is very low.

In the center of the Chilean countryfrom the southern part of Valparaíso and up to Bío Bío, the two main climates are the cold semi-arid, the Mediterranean and the Mediterranean with cool summers.

He cold semi-arid It appears in the most northwestern part of the central part of Chile, where the winters are very cold, the summers hot or temperate and the precipitation rare.

The climate Mediterranean It is the most abundant in the center of the country and is characterized by mild winters, hot summers and a marked rainy season.

For his part, he Mediterranean with cool summers the most central region of the Chilean country appears, the only difference with the previous climate is that its summers are cool, as its name suggests.

In the south part of Chilefrom Araucania to Magallanes, the predominant climates are the tundra, semi-arid and oceanic cold.

He oceanic It is the main climate of the southern part, where the winters are cold and the summers cool, with rains almost all year round.

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